By the end of last month, land clearance work was completed, making land available for road construction.

Previously, the work was stalled when many families in Thừa Thiên-Huế Province’s Nam Đông District, where the road was designed to run through, refused to move or accept compensation.

Local authorities and the project management board visited protesters to persuade them to move out.

Chairwoman of Nam Đông District People’s Committee Lê Thị Thu Hương said that all families living in affected areas agreed to move by March 31.

She asked the project management board to build additional feeder roads, so that local residents can reach their residential areas and fields more easily.

Vice head of the road project management board, Nguyễn Hữu Hưng, said that the coming dry season would bring good working conditions for constructors to speed up work on the road. He also said that the work could be completed this year and the road opened next year.

La Sơn-Túy Loan Highway will form part of Hồ Chí Minh Highway which is 3,183km long, and runs through 28 provinces and cities. The highway starts in northern Cao Bằng Province and ends in the southernmost province of Cà Mau.